I'm Brandon Sneed. This is my blog. It's basically an online notebook where I highlight good writing, storytelling, journalism and other acts of creativity, and explore how such things are made.
I'm an author and journalist who writes about people, sports, science, nature, and more. I love learning, adventures, life, and stories. I've covered everything from a guy who played Division I basketball while battling cancer ... to golf courses that eat golfers ... to turkey vultures invading a town. You can read all those and more below.
More about me and the blog: here.
The Good Hurt: How Ray King Lives and Plays Basketball with Cancer
(SB Nation Longform)
Golfer Swallowed By Golf Course
(Outside)
How A Tiny Southern Town Handles A Turkey Vulture Invasion
(Outside)
Blind Ambition
(ESPN The Magazine)
Mad For Carolina
(GQ)
Nobody Walks Alone
(ESPN: The Magazine)
The First Legend
(SLAM magazine)
This week my first story comes out in ESPN The Magazine. I've been contributing fun little front-of-book features for the mag for awhile now, but this is my first "real" story. They put me on a plane and sent me to Chicago for a week and everything. It was awesome.
The characters were those we writers dream of getting to write about.
Life